the black family

Friday, December 12, 2008

$20 starbucks card giveaway!

Yep, I'm giving away another Starbucks card on my other blog. Just leave a comment and you'll be entered to win! How easy is that?!

Go here to enter.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

fun in new mexico!

We went to Las Cruces for Thanksgiving and enjoyed our time with Jason's parents. Katey especially had fun!



Crazy heads!

Nana patiently let Kate "help" her cook. Here she is cutting up some tomatoes. She obviously loved this!


Baby Julia's first smile caught on camera. She's super easy to make smile--it's so fun!


Katey and Tata playing their harmonicas. Kate loved that thing once she learned how to do it!

Friday, November 14, 2008

fun with the girlies!


Baby Julia is another crazy sleeper, though not as crazy as Katey was. Here's here in her little bassinet, NOT using the sleep bumpers!




Isn't she huge?! She's already almost 11 1/2 lbs. SO much bigger than Kate was and such a relief!


Me and Kate made this really yummy pie for when my parents were here. It's Turtle Pumpkin Pie. You can see the recipe on my other blog here.

family comes to visit!

My mom, dad, grandma, aunt and uncle came to visit last week. Kate had such a good time with them. We went to this outlet mall here in town and Katey loved playing on all the little cars and stuff, plus she just got new light up shoes from grandma and papa and she loved those!

My mom, grandma, Kate and Julia.

halloween, better late than never!


Here's our Halloween pics finally! Kate was a bumble bee princess and Juls was a lamb. So cute! We went to this outdoor mall we have here, called Town Square, where they had a Safestreet with trick-or-treating and stuff. It was pretty fun but there were TONS of people there.



Sunday, November 2, 2008

check it out!

Check out my new blog: www.tosaveapenny.blogspot.com

I'm posting ways that I've been saving money the last few years and then stuff I've been learning recently. It's been super fun so check it out if you're interested and tell anyone else who might be interested!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

the girls!

Katey in her Charger's hat (GO CHARGERS!) and Julia completely bored out of her mind!

Before church on Sunday. Julia's already getting huge!

Katey helping Mama vacuum. She loves to help out with stuff like that. So sweet!

Kate laying next to Juls. She's been a really good big sister (minus when she tipped Julia out of her swing trying to pick her up...)



Julia in her swing (the one Katey tipped her out of, good thing it's close to the ground!).







Tuesday, October 7, 2008

my cool cvs week!

Yes, I know, a cool CVS week? What the heck does that mean?! Well, let me tell you. I already told everyone a few posts ago how my favorite blog is www.moneysavingmom.com. Well, I have been learning how to "CVS" and was actually quite successful at it this week. I went last night and got several items (Colgate toothpaste, BIC Soleil razor, 4 razor refills, Lady Speed Stick deoderant and Always Infinity pads) and paid only $1.70 for all of that. Plus, now I have $16 to spend next week that the store gave me for free. "How is that possible?" you ask...well, you have to go to the blog above to find out because it's pretty complicated and since someone else has already explained it in detail I see no need to. There are also some really great deals at Target this week that she outlines on her blog. Who doesn't like getting stuff for free?! I sure do and this has been so fun!

Monday, October 6, 2008

some great pics by danielle!

So one of my good friends, Danielle, took some pictures of baby Julia when she was six days old. Here are some of them. She did a great job! There would be some with Kate too but she wouldn't cooperate at all! Oh well!








Thursday, September 18, 2008

Julia Paige!

Well, she's FINALLY here! The doctor's decided I needed to be induced on Friday because baby's heart rate was dropping whenever I would have a contraction. So we went to the hospital and Julia Paige was born on Saturday morning at 10:38 am. She was 6 lbs 12 oz and 19 in long. She is so precious!

The new big sister!
We took that picture of Katey when she was 5 days old. They look identical!